Appeared in the Duluth News Tribune, June 5, 1926
Submitted by Bobbi Hoyt (Bobbi is not researching Mr. Tyler, she ran across the obit in the paper and graciously submitted)
E. A. Tyler, Pioneer Duluthian, Civil War Veteran, Dies
Ezra Ames Tyler, 90, Pioneer Duluthian and Civil war veteran, died late Friday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Watson S. Moore, 1829 E First st, Duluth. Death resulted from nephritis, brought on as the result of a severe fall.
Funeral services are to take place at 2:30 p. m. next Monday at the residence of Mrs. Moore.
Mr. Tyler was born in Forrestburg, N. Y., on Jan. 17, 1837, later residing at Tyler Hill, Pa. He came to Minnesota in 1860, taking up residence in Owatonna.
Enlisting as a volunteer in the Fourth Minnesota regiment at Fort Snelling in November, 1861. Mr. Tyler participated in 16 battles of the Civil war, including Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain and the seige of Vicksburg. He remained in the service for four years.
At the close of the war, he returned to Owatonna and served four years with the United States mail service on the Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. For 12 years, Mr. Tyler was register of deeds of Steel county, Minnesota.
During his residence of nearly 40 years in Duluth, Mr. Tyler was associated with the weighmaster's department of the state of Minnesota, the City National bank, the American Exchange National bank, and of the Moore-Gary Co. Mr. Tyler was an active member of the Gorman-Culver post of the Grand Army of the Repulic, was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church. He also was a Mason, belonging to the Owatonna lodge.
Mr. Tyler is survived by a sister, Mrs. J. Tyler of New York, and two daughters, Mrs. Watson S. Moore and Miss Luela Tyler of Duluth.
